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The entry on Twitter that day was: “Double back-flip off the high dive just what the doctor ordered before my first full practice after the Eid tomorrow.” It came from Lafayette senior defensive lineman Tahir Basil, who is a Muslim...

I wrote in Saturday’s column about the group Muslims and Christians United, which among other things has been meeting once a month to discuss issues involving the Muslim and Christian faiths. I promised to provide more information about its next...

As I watched Tahir Basil at work during the Lafayette football team’s spring game, jumping around wildly every time he made a big play, I predicted that he would be whistled for his share of celebration and taunting penalties during...

A Phoenix man has been charged with supplying guns and training to two men who attacked a provocative cartoon contest that featured mocking depictions of the prophet Muhammad last month in Garland, Texas.
Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, 43, faces charges of...

Saaliha Khan scrolled through her Facebook feed and pored over posts expressing sadness, dismay and disapproval, the kind of messages that always appear after an attack carried out in the name of Islam.It was just past midnight on Monday, and two Muslim...

At one of Asia’s largest slaughterhouses, there are more police officers than cattle. The stalls where butchers clean and quarter chicken, sheep, goats and pigs buzz with activity while the section reserved for bulls sits barren.
A nearly month-old ban...

For years, said Mohammad Sajad Mohseni, a 63-year-old mullah, young Afghans took one look at his salt-and-pepper beard, white turban and coral-colored prayer beads and dismissed him.
"They just saw me as another mullah," Mohseni said.
But that...

Kansas City Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah was flagged during Monday night’s game after he kneeled for a Muslim prayer after returning an interception for a touchdown.
Abdullah, a practicing Muslim, was flagged 15 yards for unsportsmanlike...